A WAR OF WORDS:
Mark Steyn cautions the Feds against using benign, nonjudgmental language to characterize acts of Islamist terrorism:
"Osama and al-Qaeda are a small problem, which since September 11th has been managed about as well as can be expected. But the broader culture of 'intolerance' in certain unassimilated communities is a potentially much bigger problem. You win wars not just by bombing but by argument, too: Churchill understood this; he characterized the enemy as evil, because they were and because it was important for the British people to understand this if they were to muster the will to see the war through. In Vietnam, the U.S. lost the rhetorical ground to Jane Fonda and co., and wound up losing the war, too. It's critical that the same thing does not happen here. The organizations that purport to represent Muslims in North America and Europe have their own excuses for turning a blind eye to the torrent of hate from respectable sources within the Muslim world -- mosques, media, government. There's no reason why the FBI and other U.S. agencies should sign on to their fictions."
